Some productions, such as the current Ghosts revival, do away with intervals entirely. But, as in the plays of Harold Pinter, a pause in the action really can matterTheatre critics are almost certainly not the best group of people to ask about intervals. We tend to think intervals are for wimps. King Lear straight through at three and a half hours? Bring it on! OK, maybe that's a mite extreme, and overly punishing on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AM on February 17, 2014